Kim Shelton elected to the Society of Antiquaries of London

October 8, 2009

Kim Shelton, Assistant Professor and Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology, was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on July 2, 2009. She received this great honor after a secret nomination by twelve Society Fellows and majority ballot, being recognized as a "leading archaeologist specialising in Aegean prehistory" and for her "extensive fieldwork and excavation at Mycenae."

The Society of Antiquaries of London was founded in 1707 and is "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with ‘the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries’."